Charles IX (“the ninth”) commissioned a collection by this composer supposedly to atone for the Saint Barthlomew’s Day Massacre. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this incredibly prolific composer whose pieces in the musica reservata style include the extremely chromatic motet collection Prophetiae Sibyllarum.
ANSWER: Orlando di Lasso [or Orlande de Lassus, Roland de Lassus, Orlandus Lassus, Orlande de Lattre, or Roland de Lattre]
[10e] The penultimate of Lasso’s Penitential Psalms of David is an acclaimed polyphonic setting of this psalm, which Josquin des Prez (“zhoh-SCAN day pray”) set twice. Many settings of this Psalm are titled with its Latin incipit, “from the depths.”
ANSWER: De profundis [accept Psalm 130 or Psalm 129]
[10h] Lasso symbolically scored this other collection for seven voices to represent Mary’s sorrows. This collection’s 20 madrigali spirituali set poems by Luigi Tansilli, and it also includes the motet Vide homo, quae pro te patior.
ANSWER: Lagrime di San Pietro [or the Tears of Saint Peter]
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